Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Cloud Native
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
North West median daily rate £560 £500 £478
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.71% -15.11%

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 103 55 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 30.12% 29.89% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 34 11
10th Percentile £234 £176 £213
25th Percentile £413 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £519
90th Percentile £638 £676 £525
North West median daily rate £500 £453 £494
% change year-on-year +10.38% -8.25% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 2
10th Percentile £18.96 - £18.04
25th Percentile £25.38 - £18.05
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £18.09
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -4.35% -38.69%
75th Percentile - - £18.11
90th Percentile - - £18.11
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £43.86 £27.25
% change year-on-year +0.24% +60.94% -32.42%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Merseyside over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Merseyside

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool - 9 £600 - 12
Cloud Native
North West

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AI
4 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Security Architect
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Information Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Project Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Security Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) API Design
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (33.33%) SABSA
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (33.33%) CCSP
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CISSP
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft